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This quotation examines the core nature of Money as articulated by Margaret Walker. Within historical and literary traditions, reflections on Money provide actionable mental models, challenging individuals to evaluate personal ethics, self-discipline, and daily actions.

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About Margaret Walker

Margaret Walker was an American poet and writer. She was part of the African-American literary movement in Chicago, known as the Chicago Black Renaissance. Her notable works include For My People (1942) which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, and the novel Jubilee (1966), set in the South during the American Civil War.

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"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."

— Margaret Walker
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"The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories."

— Margaret Walker
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"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth."

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"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something."

— Famke Janssen
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"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R amp& D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R &amp D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

— Steve Jobs
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"A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL."

— Eliot Spitzer
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